Third Grade Math Lesson: Word Problems with Addition

Last fall, at the beginning of the school year, we spent a lot of time working with place value and exploring place value with base 10 blocks. After a few weeks of using base 10 blocks in various ways, I decided that it would be a good time to use what we had learned about place value to write our own word problems and solve them. In this lesson students wrote addition word problems of their own using two numbers that were between 200 and 500. Students drew pictures of their problem and then had a partner solve it. It was fun to see the different topics that students wrote about.


Here's the sample that I used to show the students:

Here's what one of my students wrote. It was still over a month until Halloween, but candy was already on her mind! I love the way she represented the candy corn though!

 

Word Problems with Addition Lesson